Cafézinho (small coffee) Painting

My paintings bring together an analysis of the human form and skin texture with different social and political conceptions. I apply colour to enhance the moment and state in which the subject is inserted and perceived, without intending to portray things as they are in terms of pictorial reality. I want to explore details in colour, brush strokes and lines in order to increase the expression of a body. On most cases, I explore some kind of critique, social or political. I first started painting as a graffiti artist and then converted to canvasses through an intense passion for surealism. Currently, I am neither a surrealist, nor a graffiti artist, but I consider that I have absorved these two styles, blending other more traditional perspectives that I have grown to love. Today I think my work mixes a bit of these three element: graffiti and street art, with surrealism and conventional painting.